Friday, July 13, 2012

Butter Mold for Deck Family Farm


I spent this week making this butter mold for our friends at Deck Family Farm.
These people raise the best meat you can get..
Free Range organic, healthy.
I think one reason Bracken has never been sick is that he eats so much of this good meat. 
 This is a butter mold
The back is Oregon Myrtlewood
The sides are Ironwood
Some very hard Ironwood I could barely drill.
 I sanded it down to 1200 grit, then polished it with an eyeglasses polishing compound.
The idea being to make it really smooth 
so the butter would release easily.

The most time consuming part was polishing down inside of the carvings.
And making sure there were no undercuts
where the butter might hang up.



 If I were smarter I would have put the sides on first
before I carved it
Because I don't really have any good equipment
and setting the bolts in the sides
and having them not split the bottom, and line up right..
Was very stressful.
I saved that part for early this morning
when Taryn and Bracken were still asleep..
so I could totally focus.
After all the hours put in the carving,
having the drill bit pop through...
would have been a real bummer.
 But it worked out perfect,
The wood shines.
 I'll bet it'll glow once it has been permeated with butter oil.

I was going to put little channels in between the designs for the
butter milk to run off in.
But decided that if I did that there would be raised edges 
on the edges of each cube.
(They will cut cubes out of the mold)

Did I mention the sides come off.

I can't wait to see butter that comes out of the mold.
Boy do I miss butter.

(we aren't doing dairy)



4 comments:

  1. I just fell over your blog, its beautiful and its amazing, the more I looked, read and saw - I felt the Joy and good energy. Fntastic. I will come back! Thank you!

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  2. Wonderful job!
    It also reminds me a bit of cookie (spekulatius) molds.
    Do you have photos from the "finnished" butter? Because couldn't find it on the farm webite.

    Have a good day!

    xxx mel

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  3. Wonderful job!
    It also reminds me a bit of cookie (spekulatius) molds.
    Do you have photos from the "finnished" butter? Because couldn't find it on the farm webite.

    Have a good day!

    xxx mel

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